Play: A Raisin in the Sun

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During the 1950s, the stereotypical American dream was to have a house with a yard, a big car, and a happy family. People of all backgrounds migrated to America with a dream of getting educational and economical opportunities as well as religious and political freedom. But this was not so easy for African Americans during the time as they had just attained emancipation. Blacks and Whites during the 1950s were segregated to such an extent that going to the same school or using the same bathroom had been rather impossible. Chief Justice Earl Warren desegregated schools in May of 1954. Throughout the play A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry blisters the discriminatory conditions of America in the 1950s and early 60s.
The play is set in an incommodious apartment in poverty stricken Chicago. Lorraine Hansberry shows that in addition to the issues of race and gender, the Youngers represent a black family of five members fighting against racism to get accepted in middle class, not only in society but in their own home as well. At the time, all blacks were segregated into ghetto communities while the whites were living the American dream. Many blacks attempted to escape the poverty of ghetto communities. The play, A Raisin in the Sun, opens with Mama Younger who patiently waits for a $10,000 insurance check from the death of her husband. Living conditions in the ghetto neighborhood weren’t very well and so Mama planned on using this money to escape the ghetto life of Southside Chicago and to the affluent white neighborhoods to give her children a better life.
Walter, Mama’s Son, had other plans for the use of insurance money. Walter Lee Younger is a man in his middle thirties working the job of a chauffeur. Walter is a dreamer. Walt...
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...publication due to the civil rights movement by the African-American race. There were many hate crimes during the late 1950s and early 60s. White supremacy fighters burned down African-American churches and homes.
In conclusion, Hansberry shows many struggles endured by the Younger family within their home and outside environment. A Raisin in the Sun relates to a lot of events the author, Lorraine Hansberry, experienced growing up and also relates to the events happening at the time frame when the play was written in 1959. The time of 1950s and the place Chicago, showed a period of great trials and tribulations that black people had to overcome. Race and Gender played a big role in the play entirely. With the ending of the play, it was evident that the Younger family overcame the issue of racism that they faced and turned out to be a stronger family in the end.

In history there have been an uncountable amount of plays made, but there have only been two that fully captured the American dream like A Raisin in the sun and Death of a Salesman. In both plays the protagonist is trying to achieve the American dream, but it is near impossible when neither of them has the respect of their superiors or the people around them. It is amazing that two different plays can so closely parallel each other when they have a time gap of over 10 years.
Both Miller and Lorraine

Difficulities in the Play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
In the four years between 1861 and 1865 this country was in civil war over the rights and freedom of blacks in America. When all was said and done, the blacks won their freedom and gained several rights that would make their lives better. Nearly one hundred years later, in 1959, Lorraine Hansberry wrote her great play, A Raisin in the Sun. It described the everyday life of a black family in the Southside of Chicago

In the plays The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun, both tried to soak up the dreams they all had envisioned. The hardships of life and trying to get that dream can be a struggle. In both plays reality was a major factor of disrupting them from pushing towards it. In a Raisin in the Sun it was Prejudice and being black people. In The Glass Menagerie it was probably Laura the disabled sister and daughter.
The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the sun are similar in ways of how they live and

Struggles within the Younger family in the play A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin In The Sun
Rolling in the Dust
“Oh- so now it’s life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to
be life- now it’s money. I guess the world really do change…” (74).
This quote reveals the economic struggles within the Younger family in
the play A Raisin in the Sun. Throughout the play, Mama’s views are at
odds with Walter’s views. For Walter, who feels enslaved in his job
and life, money is the truest

Conflicts in an American Family in play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The play “A Raisin in the Sun” illustrates three main conflicts in the younger family life; they are internal, social, and interpersonal. The conflicts in the story give insight as to who the characters are and what they really want out of life. Conflict is one of the underlying themes in the play, which was written by Lorraine Hansberry, it helps to tell the story and explain the situation that the Younger family

The underlying theme of Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, is in the question posed by Langston Hughes' poem "Montage of a Dream Deferred," when he asks, "What happens to a dream deferred?" and then goes on to list the various things that might happen to a person if his dreams are put "on hold," emphasising that whatever happens to a postponed dream is ultimately never good. Even the Bible concerns itself with this problem; in Proverbs 13:12: “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing

“A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry is a play about an African-American family, who faces discrimination and financial struggles, but still remains united throughout their journey in buying a new home. Just like the Youngers, people create lifelong goals and dreams, in which they want to accomplish. When they do not fulfill their dreams, it simply becomes “a raisin in the sun” because just like a raisin loses its juice when kept outside for too long, a dream loses its significance as well

In “A Raisin In The Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, all of the characters in the play have difficult dreams. Each individual dream answers the question in the poem, “What happens to a dream deferred?” Mama, Walter, Beneatha and Ruth’s dreams come with many obstacles that discourage them; however, throughout the play it results to building their character. At the end of the play, the Youngers come together as a family to fight for what is right. Hansberry chose “A Raisin In The Sun” to portray that

bit, but remains in existence. The play A Raisin in the Sun by African American female, Lorraine Hansberry, depicts the real life of African Americans between the 1920s and the 1960s. This time period for an African American was rather tough. The living situations for African Americans were made even more difficult than they would have already been due to their skin color and the government's decisions (ex. Jim Crow laws).
The play A Raisin in the Sun was written by an African American

A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, has often been dubbed a “black” play by critics since its debut on Broadway in 1959. This label has been reasonably assigned considering the play has a cast that consists primarily of African American actors; however, when looking beyond the surface of this play and the color of the author and characters, one can see that A Raisin in the Sun actually transcends the boundaries of racial labels through the universal personalities assigned to each character